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“Whenever I feel unworthy, I deny myself food. It is a way of literally making myself small and weak, and yet, at the same time, I felt that hunger gave me mental clarity.”
― Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

“At least I had him, and he loved me so much it sometimes seemed to cause him pain.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“They stay in abusive marriages because they understand something that most of us do not, something from the inside out, something that seems to defy logic: as dangerous as it is in their homes, it is almost always far more dangerous to leave.”
― Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

“A poet, he argued, is different from somebody who simply writes poetry. A poet is loyal to his own experience and does not write about things outside his own understanding, whereas somebody who writes poetry simply puts together sentences, whose words he arranges in separate lines. Without fresh colors, without luster, without images, he asked, where is a poem’s artistic life?”
― Weiwei Ai, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir